Hi Ren,
I have a bias for indicators that crunch data and open up trading opportunities for a mechanical trader like me. I am 67 and have done my best to kept up with technology. EA is not my cup of tea.
You are a brilliant coder, same in the league of Honestknave, 'mad' futurespec (both of said goodbye to FF) and 'master" CJA (still active) all of you sharing the love for labour and excellence. I am just new to this forum and for starters, I have come across your work thanks to 919gilead (George) and hopefully will come across other dedicated coders. George is really good at designing simple and yet effective strategies and I am one of his fans and pray that he succeeds in extracting powerful signals. Shalom.
CJA excels in providing drop-down switches for inputs. Invariably each of his indicators will include
facility to format font, font size,lines ,wherever required, Four Chart corner locators by way of drop down, distance to tweak X and Y axis , are a big help in co-existence of various indicators on a single chart. Adjusting fonts helps in Empty4 coping with Windows display customization done by user.
May I request you to include this display switches in this indicator too.
I have also seen CJA using inputs to help backtesting process (from time, day, month, year and ending to time, day, year and month) depending on the requirements of the indicator and doing away the need to have a dedicated back-tester.
If you have appetite (and time) for coding for Currency Options, a Super Specialty, as my mentor - a medical doctor-turned-trade evangelist - calls it, I will be pleased to work for the sake of empowering those people who need economic freedom and have saved at least US$15,000.
Spreadsheet programming will be required for CME listed Currency Futures Options as have to use APIs (DDE links) provided by brokers because free CME data is unavailable.
Can later shift to coding for the OTC Currency Options retail platform developed by Empty4 which is cold-shouldered by retail brokers (except by one or two) as they can't see scope for making easy money as they can with Spot fx. Even those offering this product have jacked up spreads so much that no trader will be able to make money in fx options unless he hits big.
If Steve can lobby, armed with a petition, signed by Forum members and their friends, with CME to provide at least six months free live data and fx futures options brokers to give free use of paper trading and API and get rewarded by way of ads for this forum by the brokers, nothing like it. The community of fx traders as a whole benefits.